US1699261A - Bath brush - Google Patents

Description

J. WlSSMAR Jan. 15, 1929.

BATH BRUSH Filed NOV. 10, 1927 Patented Jan. 15, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT ,E OFFICE.

JOSEPH WISSMAR, oF CLEVELAND, omo, AssrGNoR 0F oNE-HALF To KARL F. RUP?,

or CLEVELAND, 01110. i i

BATH BRUSH.

This application is a continuation in part of my application for United States Letters Patent upon improvements in bath brushes tiled April 28, 1927, Serial No. 187,205.

My invention particularly relates to bath brushes that are flexible and that are provided With flexible extensions whereby such brush may be caused to reach those parts of the body ordinarily difficult or impossible of access..

The general object of the invention is to provide a brush of the above-described character, which is simple in construction and efficient in use. A specific object is to provide a brush construction of such character which may be made to conform with both convex and concave body surfaces.

The annexed drawing and the following description set forth in detail certain means embodying my invention, such disclosed means, constituting, however, but one of the various forms in which the principle of the invention may be illustrated.

In said annexed drawing:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved brush, showing the same flexed to the concave form;

Figure 2 is a top fplan view of said brush;

Figure 3 is a ragmentary bottom plan view ofthe brush;

Figure 4 is a side elevation of the brush showing the flexible extensions folded under the brush and the Whole flexed to convex form for use as a hand brush;

Figure 5 is a fragmentary vertical section, upon an enlarged scale, taken in the plane `indicated by the line 5 5, Figure 2; and

Figure 6 is a fragmentary horizontal section, taken in the plane indicated by the line GMG, Figure 5.

The illustrated embodiment of my invention includes a flat primary body member 1 consisting of an elongated strip of flexible material such as rubber, preferably tapered as shown in Figure l toward each end and having the ends formed with or into cylindri` cal gripping members 6. The middle portion of said body member 1 is 'provided With a multiplicity of perforations 3 through which project thetufts 2 of a set of bristles, the butt ends of said tufts projecting beyond the rear surface of the strip 1, the bristles of each butt end being cemented or otherwise caused to adhere to each other and the butt ends 4 being individually secured by separate Wire holders 8, as plainly shovvn inthe Figrires 5 and 6. In practice, a tuft2 is secured to a loop in a length of wire and the tuft passed through the perforation 3 by a machine to form the butt end and the Wire severed to individually secure the tuft. After all of the tufts have thus been threaded" through the perforations 3 and individually mary member 1, preferably by stitching, as

shown, although it will be obvious that any other well-known method of securingr may be employed, such as riveting, cementing or vulcanizing. This secondary member 5 forms a reinforcement for the middle part of the brush and a protecting cover for the butt ends of the bristles, Without detracting from the flexibility of the brush as a. Whole. To secure this flexibility, I form the secondary member 5 with a multiplicity of perforations 9 located respectively adjacent the enlarged ends 4 of the respective tufts 2 which results in the extreme pliability of the cover member 5 and, together with the individual securing of the butt ends 4, results in great flexibility of the brush as a Whole, each tuft 2 having individual flexibility, as shown by clot-anddash lines in Figure 5.

It will be seen that by grasping the ends 6 of the brush, the entire structure may be flexed when in use against the body of the user, whereby the bristle structure may be flexed to concave form to conform with convex body surfaces. I

By folding the extending portions of the member 1 under the bristle structure, as shown in Figure 4, the device may be used as a hand brush and flexed so as to give the bristle structure a convex form, whereby it may be made to conform with concave surfaces of the body of the user. For the urposes of suspending the brush on a nail or ook, I provide one end portion of the body member 1 with a perforation 7.

What I claim is:

1. A bath brush comprising an elongated dat flexible primary member having its mid-` die portion formed with a multiplicity of perforations; a tuft of bristles'passing through each perforation, the butt end of each tu'ft extending beyond said member and anchored against passage through its perforation; and a fiat secondary backing member secured to said primary member over the butt ends of the bristle tufts and being formed With a perforation adjacent eaohsch butt end.

2. A bath brush Comprising an elongated primary flexible member having front and baek faces `and having its middle portion modem mary member over the butt ends of the bristle tufts and being formed With a perforation adj aeent each -sueh butt end.

Signed by me this 4th day of November,

JOSEPH Wiseman.

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